Quality of Service (QoS): Managing Bandwidth More Effectively 
IP Multicast (IGMP) Interaction with QoS 
IP Multicast (IGMP) Interaction with 
QoS 
IGMP high-priority-forward causes the switch to service the subscribed IP 
multicast group traffic at high priority, even if QoS on the switch has relegated 
the traffic to a lower priority. This does not affect any QoS priority settings, 
so the QoS priority is honored by downstream devices. However, QoS does 
take precedence over IGMP normal-priority traffic. 
The switch’s ability to prioritize IGMP traffic for either a normal or high 
priority outbound queue overrides any QoS criteria, and does not affect any 
802.1p priority settings the switch may assign. For a given packet, if both IGMP 
high priority and QoS are configured, the QoS classification occurs and the 
switch marks the packet for downstream devices, but the packet is serviced 
by the high-priority queue when leaving the switch. 
IGMP High 
Priority 
QoS Configuration 
Affects Packet 
Switch Port Output 
Queue 
Outbound 802.1p Setting 
(Requires Tagged VLAN) 
Not Enabled  Yes  Determined by QoS  Determined by QoS 
Enabled  See above para- High  As determined by QoS if QoS is 
graph.  active. 
QoS Messages in the CLI  
Message  Meaning 
DSCP Policy < decimal-codepoint > not 
configured 
Cannot modify DSCP Policy < codepoint > - in 
use by other qos rules. 
You have attempted to map a QoS classifier to 
a codepoint for which there is no configured 
priority (No-override). Use the qos dscp-map 
command to configure a priority for the 
codepoint, then map the classifier to the 
codepoint. 
You have attempted to map a QoS classifier to 
a codepoint that is already in use by other QoS 
classifiers. Before remapping the codepoint 
to a new priority, you must reconfigure the 
other QoS classifiers so that they do not use 
this codepoint. You can have multiple QoS 
classifiers use this same codepoint as long as 
it is acceptable for all such classifiers to use 
the same priority. 
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